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Bowels Opened
Bowels opened, or, A discovery of the near and deer love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every believing soul Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixth chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his own pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.Bovvels opened, or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable societie of Grayes Inne, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his owne pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
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The ends, 1that God hath in it, are many,§1 First, To endear his presence the more to us, which we slighted too much before. It is ⟨p. 247⟩our corruption, the not valuing of things till they be gone, we set not the true price upon them when we enjoy them. When we enjoy good things, we look at the grievances which are mingled with the good, and forget the good, which when it is gone then we remember the good.2 The Israelites could remember their onions and garlic, and forget their slavery. So because Manna was present, they despised Manna, and that upon one inconvenience it had, It was ordinary with them. Thus the corrupt heart of man is prone in the enjoying of favours, If it have any grievance, it murmurs at that, and it troubles and makes them forget all the goodness and sweetness of what they enjoy. But on the contrary when God withdraws those good things from us, then we forget those former inconveniences, and begin to think what good we had by them. This is the poison and corruption of our Nature.
The ends, 1that God hath in it, are many,§1 First, To indeare his presence the more to us, which we slighted too much before. It is ⟨p. 247⟩our corruption, the not valuing of things till they be gone, wee set not the true price upon them when wee enjoy them. When we enjoy good things, we looke at the grievances which are mingled with the good, and forget the good, which when it is gone then wee remember the good.2 The Israelites could remember their onyons and garleeke, and forget their slaverie. So because Manna was present, they despised Manna, and that upon one inconvenience it had, It was ordinary with them. Thus the corrupt heart of man is prone in the enjoying of favours, If it have any grievance, it murmures at that, and it troubles and makes them forget all the goodnesse and sweetenesse of what they enjoy. But on the contrary when God withdrawes those good things from us, then we forget those former inconveniences, and begin to think what good we had by them. This is the poyson and corruption of our Nature.